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Elfeldt: When we were in the Kiev district, my CO of
signals (?) came back quite horrified ..... spoken ..... it
was an engineer Bataillonskommandeur -- and this engineer
Bataillon had the task of blowing up that ..... in which
were those 32,000 Jews including women and children.

Heim: Even if the figures are not correct, I mean,
those are things which can absolutely be characterised as
criminal, or even as completely crazy and mad.

Elfeldt: In just the same way as I have obligations
towards my family and my nation, so have we of curse a
nation, certain rules which we must observe towards the rest
of humanity, there's no doubt at all about that. I can't
behave like wild beast.

Website comments: The above CSDIC
report translated Pionierführer as 'signals' officer,
but it has the clear meaning of engineer-, or sapper-,
commander or officer. As for the missing elements
( ..), we can make educated guesses: The first missing
element is probably something like 'he had' talked 'with a
fellow officer' an engineer battalion commander, etc; the
second missing word may be something like 'ravine'. On
September 29 and 30, 1941 at Babi Yar the Germans or their
collaborators are said to have killed over 33,000 people,
most of the Jews, from the region in and around occupied
Kiev, then part of Soviet Ukraine, in retaliation for a wave
of arson and booby-trap explosions throughout the city.